Twitter C/D

Both Obama and the Jet Propulsion Lab follow me on Twitter. Just knowing that has put the kibosh on a lot of rage-tweeting that I'd be unloading.

It's true me chin Twitter is good

Last year, we upgraded tweet length to 280 and guess what? Use of 'please' is up 54% and 'thank you' is up 22%. I love that! Also, people are asking more questions and having more conversations. All this, and the majority of tweets are still under 140. It worked.

— Biz Stone (@biz) October 30, 2018

'Please' and 'thank you' still used sarcastically at the (unchanged) rate of 78%

oh, please

reported a white supremacist for telling me Jews caused all current problems, I'm fighting on their behalf, and he'll be seeing me thru his ar15 sight. got response stating it didn't violate Twitter rules. cool cool.

twitter <3 nazis

*tweets "please kick off the nazis" ad nauseum for two years*

Biz: Oh good, they're saying 'please' more often!

We reviewed more than 4000 of bombing suspect Cesar Sayok’s tweets. We found more than 240 threats at 50 different people, news organizations, reporters, and celebrities.

We found a mind corrupted by right wing conspiracy theories of every sort.https://t.co/lzpDOnO9Fa

— 💀andrew👻kaczynski🎃 (@KFILE) October 31, 2018

https://twitter.com/drilosophers

that's pretty great.

i just deactivated my account. the site really caters to the bad, dumb bit of my brain and just feeds me rage. it's the first social media thing i ever ended up actively hooked on and I'm going to try and read during the times i would have reached for my phone

I've navigated to the website twice since i posted that

I admit I'm addicted to Twitter, but I do think you can manipulate your user experience there to be something you like

that's quite possible but the addiction to a website/app is something i find sufficiently deleterious or alarming regardless of the experience with the thing itself.

stay strong jim

yea i've been halfheartedly trying to quit for a while.. internet is kind of awkward without twitter though, it's weird like, going to websites

ive been thinking about deactivating for a while. it's a miserable place where people act small and petty, sanctimonious, unreflective, uncharitable. there are things about it that work but it also brings out terrible qualities in people. every time i go on it i feel irritated by what i see.

after 8 years I still don't "get" twitter and that's probably a good thing. it seems like either opinions4u or 'look how I zinged this famous/semifamous person' but I have zero confidence in the accuracy of that appraisal

oh and then there's weird twitter but I never found one account I really jived with there either

dril is the best tweeter

I might get the dril book, I don’t much care for websites these days

twitter became funner when i did a cull of ppl i followed and created lists for lols and basketballs

Arts/science/professional/straightlaced twitter can be great of course. Sports too but how you filter your feed into something digestible and good I have no idea

xp yeah. I wish I knew how to do that!

yeah you just gotta engage selectively it’s not that hard

https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=“muscle%20the%20courage”&src=typed_query

not bad

Got the dril book for my birthday. Perfect tome to peruse on the shitter.

Hit this one today. Killed me again.

im the guy at mcdonalds who decides which states the offers are not valid in, an d i get more death threats than god

— wint (@dril) March 27, 2017

lmfao

this is a recent gem

there should be a good version of the oscars where they hand out statues that are fucking wearing clothes

— wint (@dril) November 15, 2018

today is my 12th twitter birthday

hb

your twitter acct is almost old enough to start its own account

I was just thinking, it's amazing you were able to secure your own .com and @

i bought maura.com in 1996!

My boss has a two-letter Twitter handle. He tries not to get too smug about it.

People with short Twitter names get loads of junk and misdirected @ mentions so it's not such a great thing

You're so jealous.

:-D

i actually don’t get that very much anymore

I'm pretty happy passing along art pics and funny non sequiturs, the rest I can leave. I try to not retweet political stuff anymore.

i just deactivated my account. the site really caters to the bad, dumb bit of my brain and just feeds me rage. it's the first social media thing i ever ended up actively hooked on and I'm going to try and read during the times i would have reached for my phone

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, November 16, 2018 5:58 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Good for you. I actually deleted Twitter from my phone yesterday morning for similar reasons. I'm looking at it as a hiatus rather than a permanent break, but I need to get out of the habit. I'm using Nuzzle to catch up with all the articles that people are tweeting about, without actually seeing the tweets.

I accidentally locked myself out of my twitter account and can't be bothered going through the rigmarole of getting back into it so that's one way to kick it

jaymc good at Twitter imo

Can some of you folks add me? Or post your @s please.

I'm @gaustinanderson

I'm @critterjams and I RT a lot of good stuff

Twitter & Reddit are both really shitty in general but you can definitely curate it into something good if you follow the right accounts/subs. coincidentally basketball Twitter and basketball Reddit are both awesome

What's Your Twitter Username?

Ahh, cheers mookie!

there should be a term for big accounts where 90% of their tweets are them quote tweeting rando haters in their replies? have unfollowed so many otherwise good accounts for this. prob most regrettable is tressie maccotam. most recently celeb chef Kenji Lopez. it's like a mania imo

lol yeah I think Al Roker is like that too

tressiemc is still a good follow! dont think thats a fair description tbh (altho obv thats your prerogative to not read her if the amount she does of this sort is still more than your liking, but idk...)